Indian Iron Tantric Lingam

Dark mahogany lower body, pale gray top, split by a jagged line like a torn map.

This tantric lingam is from Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is quartz crystal & iron. The article describes Banalinga as chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline quartz with iron oxide deposits, and says scholars link their naturally occurring markings, considered spiritually auspicious, to meteoric iron. Pale gray-tan covers the upper part and the left, with a sharp, toothy edge where it meets glossy dark red-brown below. Fine pale scratches and faint ghostly lines show on the lower right. The shape is rounded and compact. It is 9.5 inches high and 5 in diameter.

Torn paper edges, but somehow perfectly smooth to the touch.